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Yeah, but Gabe is down to 25% ownership.

He could be pushed out at anytime. It’s this weird situation where if a serious challenger to Steam really takes off, the 75% may demand Steam gets shittier to make more money.

But Gabe won’t last forever anyways, who knows what will happen without him. Which means people do want some kind of challenger to prevent a monopoly, but that just makes the other scenario more likely

Steam is already a huge outlier

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Not sure, apparently the 25% figure is really new, Wikipedia is sourcing something from 2017 that says he has 50+.

This is the most up to date I can find that attributes a source

guru3d.com/…/microsoft-reportedly-readies-billion…

Insights from Dior, a prominent figure in the Counter-Strike community, reveal that Gabe Newell owns less than 25% of Valve. This suggests that a significant portion of Newell’s wealth is tied to his equity in the company. The decision to sell Valve wouldn’t rest solely with Newell; numerous employees who likely hold stock options could also have a say through a voting process if an offer were made.

So it sounds like a lot was given to employees from the beginning, which track with Gabe.

Then he may have cashed out a couple times, but I doubt that when he could just do the billionaire thing where he borrows against his stock counting on the value increasing enough to pay off the last with a new?

But then again Gabe is different and might not do that out of principle.

It’s not publicly traded, so I guess we don’t really know unless Valve discloses who owns what. Which I just realized is pretty concerning on its own.

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Usually it’s forced arbitration, you can’t sue

It really favors the company. Steam is explicitly saying no arbitration which levels the playing field.

Arbitration doesn’t save money. You still need lawyers.

What’s bigger is this explicitly says it allows class actions. Something that most prevent and require individual arbitration, consumers are better off when they can pool resources for lawyers against a giant corporation, especially since most would require an upfront payment for a large class action.

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It’s usually a pretty hard sell of “make the company you work at shittier to make more money”, especially since most of the employees probably know gabe personally (valve has less than 400 employees) and likely approve of his leadership.

And most of the ones with the high percent have been there since the beginning, probably close to Gabe’s age, looking towards retirement. They make good money, but retirement is expensive.

I mean. That link from this year said Microsoft was thinking 16 billion. 1% of that is 160 million.

Or they may die and their kids see dollar signs when a vote comes up

Steam is great now, it’s not debatable. But its naive to expect it indefinitely. 10 years, 20 years from now? It wouldn’t be surprising if Valve was a lot shittier than it is today

It won’t last forever

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I’ve literally never seen any person argue that forced arbitration is a good thing for consumers…

It’s always corporations

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Oh, I’m fully aware it sucks, just not sure why that person is defending it

givesomefucks, 25 dni temu

I mean, triple A just meant a big studio made it.

So I’m assuming quadruple A is going to be a game from a large study thats recently been bought by a giant corporation and fucked with everything despite not knowing video games.

So yeah, that’s pretty much what AAAA means, although some end up decent

givesomefucks, miesiąc temu

It’s the same use everyone else has “found”…

Getting people to give you money for it

But why not just sell pre-orders like a Kickstarter game?

givesomefucks, 4 miesiące temu

I’m so glad they haven’t sold out to a large American corporation yet.

It’s gotta be hard to turn down all that money, but large American corporations would want to buy it just to squash the competition

givesomefucks, 4 miesiące temu

Tencent wants market share, not money.

The money comes later, like how Uber used to be a good service.

givesomefucks, 4 miesiące temu

It was the last “hard” puzzle before everyone was able to just Google it if they got stuck

It didn’t stick out as hard to me, but when I went to school everyone was bitching about it. I ended up having people bring me their games so I could beat Water Temple for them so they could keep playing.

givesomefucks, 5 miesięcy temu

So it’s a free “game” where you type a word that pops up?

Wonder what the grift is.

givesomefucks, 5 miesięcy temu

I mean, there aren’t many free games that are actually free…

givesomefucks, 5 miesięcy temu

The abundance of back-to-back solar events has led scientists to think the sun may have entered its explosive era of peak activity, known as solar maximum — which seems to be starting a year earlier than previous forecasts predicted. However, researchers will have to wait until the sun “calms down” to know for sure.

What we do know is that X-class flares are most common during solar maximum, which is part of the sun’s 11-year solar cycle. So far in 2024, seven X-class flares, including the latest one, have burst from the sun, which is already half the number that reached Earth in 2023, Live Science previously reported.

On a long enough timescale, we’re gonna be hit by a big one.

I remember like a decade ago they were saying it hits a developed area, it’ll blow out all the transformers, and on that scale no country could replace them all for a very long time.

givesomefucks, 5 miesięcy temu

I’ll just never get over how “we” (science I guess) know that stuff like this isn’t a question of if, but when.

And we just don’t seem to get ready for it.

Like, Y2K we saw coming and everyone handled it in time. But if there’s no firm date on something, everyone with the power to do anything just ignores it.

As a society it just feels like we’re living paycheck to paycheck. Can’t worry about next year cuz rents due in two weeks shit.

It’s just not a good way to go about things.

givesomefucks, 5 miesięcy temu

…

Yes, we get hit by them all the time…

What everyone else is talking about is a big one.

givesomefucks, 5 miesięcy temu

From the article you didn’t read:

I should make it absolutely clear, this is a joke

From OPs summary you didn’t read:

Pocketpair reveals a Palworld dating sim as part of an April Fool’s Day joke

But hey, if you’re not sure, you’re better off asking.

givesomefucks, 6 miesięcy temu

I mean, all that was intentional…

But this was a dying business years ago, it was propped up by a few people who made a shit ton of money and a whole bunch of idiots they convinced to hold the bag.

GameStop was never going to last long, it was just delayed

givesomefucks, 6 miesięcy temu

Pretty sure nothing changes for you.

Obviously in this case, no more updates. If there’s a server, it’s getting shut down. And no new players will buy it. So player count will decrease until it’s a dead game, even if multiplayer is peer to peer. But I doubt that’s the case.

givesomefucks, 7 miesięcy temu

Why does the Geo Metro exist when everyone could just drive Ferraris?

If controllers arent replaceable, you’re going to make them more durable, which raises price.

It’s a trade off

givesomefucks, 7 miesięcy temu

With non replaceable controller…

Like, there’s lots of different components. The cheaper overall may have better parts in a few specific areas, because if it breaks, the whole thing is broken.

givesomefucks, 7 miesięcy temu

Jack Black as claptrap might be good, but who cast Kevin Hart as Roland?

givesomefucks, 7 miesięcy temu

I always thought of our universes as just a bubble, with dark matter all around us. It’s not the edge of the existence as much as the edge of our bubble.

We might not be the only bubble, but it’s impossible to interact or even observe them. Could be millions, could just be us. No way to every know.

Our bubble keeps expanding, until the edges aren’t dense enough to displace whatever’s out there. And we’ll either slowly fade and future civilizations will assume the universe has always shrunk. Because that’s all they’ve ever seen. Like if the human lifespan was a single minute, people would freak out everytime it approaches dawn or dusk. Not understanding that it’s a cycle.

It’s all about timescale.

givesomefucks, 7 miesięcy temu

NFS is pretty good.

Multiplayer sucks, but the single player is good. You can erase your save data to start a new one, it’s weird there’s no “new game” option to make it simpler tho.

I got it cheap on sale and have run thru the solo missions 2-4 times.

It’s pretty shallow, so there’s not much to do after the missions.

givesomefucks, 7 miesięcy temu

Devs abandoned it, players won’t

givesomefucks, 10 miesięcy temu

The best thing about steam is you can buy keys from other sites, or even add incompatible games so they still showed up in your library.

PSN won’t even show you the current price for a game you own because it would encourage users to wait for a slae.

givesomefucks, 11 miesięcy temu

It’s getting better.

I got a PS5 as my first console in over a decade and most new PS5 games have the options you listed

There’s still older ones tho where theres literally just a single toggle or not even that.

givesomefucks, rok temu

Weird West is a good but simplictic ARPG.

Some people really don’t like the controlls tho, but there are options to switch it up.

givesomefucks, rok temu

It’s insane it wasn’t there to begin with.

There’s just way too much junk games that are just there for people to grind trophies

givesomefucks, rok temu

What?

Insider trading is the trading of a public company’s stock or other securities (such as bonds or stock options) based on material, nonpublic information about the company

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider_trading

givesomefucks, rok temu

CEOs have to schedule their sales many months ahead of time

As opposed to stuff like this, where they came up with it yesterday afternoon, right?

If they planned this change and the sale both months ago, what does it change? They scheduled the sale days before the change was answered.

What’s hard to understand here?

givesomefucks, rok temu

It’s a way to make the game look better…

And a bad sign that a modder cranked one out immediately but the game couldn’t do it before release

givesomefucks, rok temu

So it’s literally a slot machine simulator…

And the guy who made it doesn’t understand why it’s being taken down for gambling?

givesomefucks, rok temu

No because that’s not killing anyone.

But a slot machine simulator is still gambling even if it doesn’t really pay out.

So a slot machine simulator getting banned in countries that ban gambling makes perfect sense.

But the creator apparently thinks it’s because those countries just love capitalism so much…

I don’t know what’s hard to understand

givesomefucks, rok temu

I googled that.

It’s set to open in 2027 because they’re confident by then it will be legal.

But it’s 2023 and it’s not legal. So sure, if in 2027 it’s legal and this mobile slot machine simulator is still banned, maybe it would matter

givesomefucks, rok temu

I’m not exactly up to date on mobile games…

But if their primary gameplay is a slot machine simulator, then yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re also banned.

Although people who play a lot of mobile games would explain the type of replies I’m getting. So it probably wasn’t intentional, but you did help, thanks!

givesomefucks, rok temu

Too bad lootboxes are banned in a lot of countries so you couldn’t make a closer analogy…

givesomefucks, rok temu

This is like saying meteorologists who predict the rain cause it…

givesomefucks, rok temu

Even for someone with a username made out of emojis…

Come on man, you can’t be that stupid

Edit:

Nevermind, saw that post history. That’s what I get for being an optimist

givesomefucks, rok temu

This makes sense tho, the big cyperpunk expansion is out in 2 months. So once that happens they won’t need as much staff.

As their next release approaches, they’ll probably staff up again.